I’ve been in a couple of newspapers for my metro website, and run for office. Does that count?
Well my parents supplied the 1995 Roanoke City Christmas tree which made the FRONT COVER of the Roanoke Times. Hah!
And when I was 13, I was in a picture on the front page of the Waukesha County Freeman.
They snapped a human intrest shot of me & my brother when we were fishing off the dam.
I’ve had , count 'em, two letters to the editor published in the Evanston Review, and my high school boyfriend won an Honorable Mention the Mr. Lover Boy Chicago contest that the Chicago Tribune ran my sophomore year.
The latter was one of the most mortifying moments of my entire life; I’d entered him as a joke, at a friend’s urging (actually blackmailing, the friend said if I didn’t nominate him, the friend would do it himself, and I wouldn’t like what he wrote), on the theory that there was no way in Hell it would ever get published. But it did. Imagine the mortification of my boyfriend’s mom, the college professor, upon walking into the faculty lounge the morning it was published, to the semi-gentle ribbing of her esteemed colleagues, who were mostly nuns.
I’m Elvis. I’ve been holed up with Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix for years. You would never guess what their Doper names are!
I am the Queen of Skankified Sluttiness
We know, we know
An in-law of mine knows David Byrne (he wrote “Psycho Killer” while hanging out in her loft) and the rest of the ex-Heads, and had Suzy Rotolo (Dylan’s girlfriend during on the “Freewheelin’” album) visiting in her apartment a little while ago.
I once ran into a school bus in my hometown and was in the local paper not once but three times because they kept getting the story wrong and having to run corrections.
What can I say, it was a small town …
I went to college with and hung around a bit with the lead singer of Jet Set Satellites, if that name means anything to anyone…
Beyond that I am singlehandedly responsible for the delayed second destruction of earth!
I had a letter to the editor (on media deregulation) published in the New York Times a couple months ago.
Well damn, Nichol_storm! I’m one impressed feller over here. That’s my kinda kin!
I just hope that bombing of London thing ain’t genetic.
“Any of you Straight Dopers a bona fide celebrity?”
Only in a sad little “I’m my own Grandpa” sort of way.
Henry Kissinger signed my birth certificate.
I see in near perfect 3D with only one functional eye. My brain re-wired itself because I was so young when the accident happened.
That’s it.
How is this even possible?
2 eyes are needed for stereoscopics. 
Well, my uncle is pretty well-connected in Democratic politics.
I’ve met, talked with, and gotten drunk with any number of famous Science Fiction authors. I’ve jammed with Spider Robinson. I’ve been squelshed by Harlan Ellison.
I once shook hands with Fred McMurray.
Voyager- what was Nash like?
I can be seen on CSPAN on an infrequent, but somewhat regular, basis. But I never get to say anything.
Oh, and my fiancee once spilled coffee on Matthew Broderick, just as he was about to sign the contract to do “The Producers.”
I appeared briefly via videotape on an obscure Comedy Central show about 12 years ago. And my writing has been frequently seen on a little web site I like to call “the Straight Dope Message Board.”
I’m not famous now, nor am I likely to be in the future. But my great-great-grandfather was this person.